Re: [patch] 1.5.14: Incorrect archive member renaming with GNU ar

[Peter O'Gorman]

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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
| Hello,
|
|  A change dated 2004-12-10 broke handling of archives containing multiple
| members of the same name for GNU binutils.  Unlike what the relevant
| ChangeLog entry suggests may be true for all ar implementations, GNU ar
| actually extracts all matching members.  OTOH, it only deletes first
| matching ones.  As a result, when renaming archive members, all the new
| files are really copies of the last member.
|

Aw crap! Oh well, Alexandre Olivia has a patch, applied to gcc, that avoids
putting duplicate members in the archive in the first place. Seems like a
good plan. I'll go look for it.

Thanks for reporting this,
Peter
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Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com
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